ART-PRESENTATION:Real Distortions-Xippas Gallery,Paris

The exhibition ’’Real Distortions’’ evokes the feeling of this strange energy by focusing on a significant selection of Richard Hambleton’s artwork and bringing together four artists living and working in Switzerland.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Xippas Gallery Archive

Hayan Kam Nakache welcomes visitors with vast murals of figurines: half in nostalgia, half in disappointment, giant clowns stand in single file under a glass ceiling as if waiting at a club entrance. On the first floor of the gallery, Sylvie Fleury co-opts the slogan, “the only good system is a sound system”, to present her wave, formed from an agglomeration of materials used for hanging paintings and drawings, and shaped similarly to the ones we would ecstatically stare at on stereo equalizers when there wasn’t much else to see. It is the clash and intensity of distortion that seems to unite these works: Hayan Kam Nakache’s drawings amplify the loquacious world of comic books; Sylvie Fleury’s paper artworks shatter chromatic scales in an almost hypnotic manner and are accompanied by the captivating iconography of Andreas Dobler’s paintings meanwhile the ostensible tranquility of Stéphane Kropf’s monochromes are torn apart by their pigments’ iridescent effects.

Info: ‘’Real Distortions’’, Xippas Gallery,108, Rue Vieille Du Temple, Paris, Duration:4/3-18/4/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 10:00-13:00 & 14:00-19:00, Sat:10:00-19:00, www.xippas.net